Mathematics in Mesopotamia : Where did mathematics begin? ; Political history in Mesopotamia ; The number symbols ; Arithmetic operations ; Babylonian algebra ; Babylonian geometry ; The uses of ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

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David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness; tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression ...

Foundations of mechanics; a mathematical exposition of classical mechanics with an introduction to the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and application to the three-body problem [by] Ralph ...

The opening years of the twenty-first century have been remarkable ones for the mathematical sciences. Major breakthroughs have been made on fundamental research problems. The ongoing trend for the ...